[10841] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: mae-la
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bowman)
Tue Jul 15 23:41:20 1997
From: Robert Bowman <rob@elite.exodus.net>
To: keith@iswest.net (Keith McCallion)
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 20:34:07 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970715173224.20049A-100000@user1.iswest.com> from "Keith McCallion" at Jul 15, 97 05:44:16 pm
Mae-LA has kicked off if you look at it this way:
1. Every provider there, that I am aware of, will peer with any other providers
connecting to Mae-LA.
2. Some of the biggest providers of colocation and access in the LA area are
present at Mae-LA: Exodus, CerfNet, Genuity, Internex and LosNettos.
3. Even if the "big boys", as Bill put it, were present, you probably wouldn't
meet their peering guidelines by only being at Mae-LA, and therefore it
wouldn't make a difference anyways.
4. Being smaller than Mae-West and Mae-East, it doesn't have all the wonderful
problems like looped OC3 circuits, head-of-line blocking, long power outages
and people that are leaving their interfaces at 100% utilization.
5. Bill Manning has better statistics on his homepage than MFS does for the
other Maes. ;)
We have no plans on bailing out of Mae-LA anytime soon. In fact, we've placed
an order to increase our connection from 10Mbps to a shared FDDI (as they don't
have enough traffic to justify a wonderfully HOL ridden Gigaswitch yet).
Rob
Exodus Communications Inc.
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm curious about MAE-LA. It has the potential to be quiet big, but it
> never really kicked off. We were considering linking there, but with only
> 13 other providers, we decided not too.
>
> Does anyone know why MAE-LA never really kicked off?
>
> Keith
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